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Julius Ceaser
Words: 701 - Pages: 3.... us visual evidence of the bloody treason, and when he said the words "beloved" and "Brutus" together I sought revenge. I am furious, and detest Brutus. I hit myself on the head, for respecting him, and thinking of him as an honorable man. How foolish I had been! Tears come to my eyes, as I see the dead corpse of the most exquisite man that had ever existed.
It was after all of this, that the crowd of Roman citizens is truly enraged. We chant: "...Burn! Fire! Kill! Slay! Let not a traitor live!". I am not going to let any of the conspirators get away. They killed the best thing that had ever happened to Rome, and for that they deserve to suf .....
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Red Badge Of Courage
Words: 1451 - Pages: 6.... to reveal a literal green world of grass. It also reveals another green world, the green world of youth. Like schoolchildren, the young soldiers circulate rumor within the regiment. This natural setting proves an ironic place for killing, just as these fresh men seem the wrong ones to be fighting in the Civil War. Crane remarks on this later in the narrative: "He was aware that these battalions with their commotions were woven red and startling into the gentle fabric of the softened greens and browns. It looked to be a wrong place for a battlefield" (69). Green is an image of the natural world and of the regiment's fresh youth, while red .....
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In Cold Blood
Words: 2306 - Pages: 9.... he feels stemmed from his childhood. In many of his books, included, Capote makes usage of a character's detrimental childhood. He feels that this has stemmed from his childhood because Capote had a bad childhood also. What makes unique is that at no time in this book does Capote render a judgment about the criminals (Reed 107). In order to write this book, Capote had to compile years of research, mounds of tapes and endless interviews (Magill 51). Capote wanted to write this book in a way so that the murder was known almost as gruesome as it was. Truman Capote made significant contributions to American Literature in the mid twentieth ce .....
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Animal Farm 4
Words: 1700 - Pages: 7.... because they considered there was no market for “children’s books”.
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The novel Animal Farm is a satire on the Russian revolution, and therefore full of symbolism. General Orwell associates certain real characters with the characters of the book.
Mr Jones: Mr. Jones is Orwell's chief (or at least most obvious) villain in Animal Farm. Mr. Jones symbolizes (in addition to the evils of capitalism) Czar Nicholas II, the leader before Stalin (Napoleon). Jones represents the old government, the last of the Czars. Orwell suggests that Jones (Czar Nicholas II) was losing his "edge". In fact, he and his men had tak .....
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Claudius Vs. Lady Macbeth
Words: 1378 - Pages: 6.... to Gertrude, but it hurt Hamlet, his nephew, extremely. Lady Macbeth was indeed as power hungry as Claudius, and she too plotted a murder in order for her husband to obtain the crown. In doing this she was extremely deceitful of her lover also. She employed many conniving tricks in order to convince Macbeth to kill King Duncan, such as in scene in Act I, scene seven when she says, ³From this time such I account thy love.² Here she is basically saying that Macbeth may prove his undying love for her by killing the king, thus causing him to feel that he is obligated to murder King Duncan. King Claudius and Lady Macbeth are also very good a .....
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Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
Words: 1605 - Pages: 6.... to the temptation of Adam, which is rooted in the sins of the flesh. The women in the story seem to accentuate the downfall of Gawain, which mirrors the downfall of Arthur’s court, as well as man’s fall from grace in the garden.
Originally, the first duty of a knight was to be at the service of his church. However, with the rise of courtly love, knights began to give their devotion to their mistress rather than God. This elevated the church’s mistrust of women and the flesh. The characterization of Bertilak’s wife is not unlike that of Eve, a temptress who would bring both happiness and despair to her man. One interesti .....
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Analysis Of Do Not Go Gentle I
Words: 605 - Pages: 3.... at close of day" As you get old there is a daily struggle against death; you should fight for your life and take it day by day. In the second stanza the poet says "Though wise men at their end know dark is right, because their words had forked no lighting they don not go gentile into that good night" I thin what the poet is trying to say is even though you’re getting older and you know the time is coming you haven’t shown a sign of death you ‘re still have life so fight against death. Then in third stanza the poet describes someone who lived a good life but doesn’t want to let go "Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright their .....
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Flowers For Algernon(Book)
Words: 588 - Pages: 3.... is in a restaurant and the bus boy who is mentally challenged drops the dishes on the floor, the people start laughing at him and make fun of him. This makes Charlie upset and he begins to yell at the customers in the restaurant saying “Shut up. Leave him alone. It’s not his fault he can’t understand. He can’t help what he is. But he’s still a human being.” Charlie also does not realizethat his friends are laughing at him and not with him until his IQ beginsto increase, and he figures out what Joe Carp and Frank Riley mean by “he pulled a Charlie Gordon.”
Another reason the operation is not worth the risk is because .....
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The Ugly Tie
Words: 258 - Pages: 1.... flashy illuminating polyester fabric gleams with a lust of
shiny plastic coating. The tie is milky colored all around and at the
center a cherry colored circle. However, as creative as it may seem, the
tie is indifferent to any color other than ivory or ebony. Thus, a snow-
white suit with beaming bleach-white colored shoes is necessary in order to
pair with this particular tie.
History has taught that fashion is something that relates to the
time period. As the people evolve from the seventies they realize that
clothes could not be outrageous or it would decease as a fad.
This bland tie fits very well with the seventies or th .....
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A Marxist Criticism On "The Importance Of Being Earnest"
Words: 1419 - Pages: 6.... such as the play "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde.
In this play Wilde display's the class structure with a different and
interesting twist. He makes a reflection on the society with his own sense
of humor, but however it still leaves a very good opportunity to make a
Marxist critique about the way the class structure influences the play. He
leaves room for these critiques when he writes about the servants, the
nobles, and the middle class. His view on society and class is very
evident on the way the servants are portrayed.
"‘I don't know that I am much interested in your family life,
Lane'"
"‘No sir; it's n .....
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